Updated: Wed, 10/02/2024 - 13:45

From Saturday, Oct. 5 through Monday, Oct. 7, the Downtown and Macdonald Campuses will be open only to McGill students, employees and essential visitors. Many classes will be held online. Remote work required where possible. See Campus Public Safety website for details.


Du samedi 5 octobre au lundi 7 octobre, le campus du centre-ville et le campus Macdonald ne seront accessibles qu’aux étudiants et aux membres du personnel de l’Université McGill, ainsi qu’aux visiteurs essentiels. De nombreux cours auront lieu en ligne. Le personnel devra travailler à distance, si possible. Voir le site Web de la Direction de la protection et de la prévention pour plus de détails.

Yuriko Furuhata - Department Chair

Academic title(s): 

Professor

William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History
Associate Member of the Department of Art History & Communication Studies

 

Yuriko Furuhata - Department Chair
Contact Information
Address: 

680 Sherbrooke St West
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 2M7

Email address: 
yuriko.furuhata [at] mcgill.ca
Department: 
East Asian Studies
Office: 
266
Biography: 

Yuriko Furuhata is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University. Her first book, Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. Her second book, Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control (Duke University Press, 2022) explores the geopolitical conditions underpinning environmental art, weather control, digital computing, and cybernetic architecture in Japan and the United States. Climatic Media won the 2022 Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) CHOICE Award in the category of interdisciplinary monograph. She is currently completing a book, titled Visual Grammars of Deep Time: Archipelagic Archives of the Anthropocene (under contract, Duke University Press), which examines scientific atlases, photographs, and films of fossils, clouds, snow crystals, and corals in relation to the settler colonial histories of geosciences in Japan, the Pacific, and North America. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of journals, including Grey Room, Representations, Public Culture, Media+Environment, and Screen, and edited collections such as Screen Genealogies (2019), Media Theory in Japan (2017), Animating Film Theory (2014), among others.

 

Area(s): 
Japan
Areas of expertise: 

Cinema and Media History

Research areas: 
Japanese Film and Media
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 

She is the author of Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics (Duke University Press, 2013), which won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. 

Areas of interest: 

Research Interests: Japanese Film and Media Studies, Environmental Media Studies, Transpacific Studies, Avant-Garde Arts and Visual Culture, Architecture, History of Science and Technology and Continental Philosophy.

Group: 
Professor
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